On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 05:34:13PM -0600, Jim Wilson wrote:
There was some buzz on this list a while back about supporting Usenet syntax
- such as *bold*, /italics/ and _underscores_.
I have created an extension which provides this facility, which you can read about here:
Woohoo. :-)
I welcome all feedback - and thanks in advance to anyone who wants to give it a shot.
FWIW, the customary rendering (IME) is _italics_, since handwritten underlining is usually rendered as italics in typesetting, and most computer displays have, traditionally, not had a good way to render underlining...
Cheers, -- jra